too long retained, and by prefTing on the neck 

 of the bladder cauled a difficulty of Haling. I 

 «fed to cure her by raking and clyftersj though 

 at tinnes fhe was exceeding bad. Opening a 

 vein is frequently of fervice in the colic. 



Mares calling their foais is another common 

 accident ; which is prevented by taking fome 

 pigeons' feathers, and laying them on a pan of 

 hot coals, fo that they may fmoke but not blaze, 

 and holding thcfe fmoking feathers under the 

 mare's noftrils for eight or ten minutes. I ne- 

 ver knew this fail. Before I made ufe of pi- 

 geons* feathers, I had fjx mares in one (labk, 

 all with foal : four of them, one after another, 

 caft their foals; though, when the accident had 

 happened to the firft mare, every method then 

 in ufe was put in practice, fuch as burning pitch 

 and tar in the liable, and continued until three 

 more caft their foals. The two remaining 

 mares were fmoked with pigeons' feathers as 

 defcribed, and they brought their foals, and 

 did very well. This as a preventative ihould 

 be applied at the latter end of the year. I ge- 

 nerally do it twice, the beginning of Odober 

 -and the beginning of November. I never knew 



a mare 



